(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – Ghost, vampires and UFO’s, oh my. There’s a plethora of paranormal possibilities in the news recently, with new tales coming out of Nebraska, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and around the world.

In Arkansas, a tale has emerged from the Desha County Courthouse in the southeastern part of the state where the bells don’t quite ring on time because of a ghost. In fact, locals have called the chap “Willard,” and supposedly he’s been haunting the clock for the last 100 years.

It comes down to a wrongly accused man back in those days who was sentenced to death. Just before his execution, he claimed he’d prove his innocence by assuring the bells don’t wrong on time anymore. They apparently haven’t this entire time.

See the full story here.

Nebraska’s North Platte Bulletin has looked into a local woman who was hypnotized, recalling not just one abduction but two. She’d suspected the second one, which happened in 1967, but when a New Mexico doc put her under the spell of a shiny gold thing (well, ok, he probably didn’t actually hypnotize her that way), she revealed an earlier abduction in the late 50’s.

In the ’67 case, a UFO landed in her family’s farmyard, and she vaguely remembered her house filling with and then waking up in bed. She had always wondered about that night until her hypnosis in 1989.

That endeavor also revealed an earlier incident in 1959, where she was driving a little red Rambler station wagon in her area, encountering two aliens in the family pasture. At the time, the social decorum of the day held that women didn’t go out barefoot or in an apron, and she said she was quite embarrassed to greet these otherworldly visitors in such a state.

The full article is here.

A New Oxford, Pennsylvania man is talking about his haunted home. He’s the writer of the nonfiction book, "Pennsylvania's Adams County Ghosts," where writes about fingerprints that keep appearing on his fridge, being poked in the back and having his clothing tugged at.

That helped lead him to becoming a paranormal investigator in the area, finding more weird tales to tell. Freaky stuff, and there’s more here.

In Phillie, the Daily News has found a prof who refers to the city’s dark, haunted past, and she notes how – not unlike the mythical being itself - vampire culture there just won’t die.

Apparently, the town is alive with a fascination for the undead, with various clubs and other cultural niches focusing on the ancient bat boy and girl.

The newspaper writes: “Philadelphia, for instance, is home to some spooky real estate that resonates with the vampire-loving crowd: the Edgar Allen Poe House, 532 N. 7th St., and the Mutter Museum, 19 S. 22nd St., which is filled with medical oddities. (One of its most popular displays is the corpse of a woman who turned into soap. Cue the creepy organ music.)”

The full article is here.

Uexplained-Mysteries.com has dug into the spooks at military bases, which have been apparently the stuff of much investigation lately by paranormal groups.

Most notably, the famed TAPS guys (Sci Fi Network’s “Ghost Hunters”) checked out the reports of voices, footsteps and other events at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio last year. There, personnel have talked about a blonde boy wandering one building and an elderly woman in another.

Numerous sightings have gone on there, always rather transparent figures. The Ghost Hunter chaps apparently encountered something, according to the article.

One college newspaper in Tennessee is talking about an encounter at the Battle of Stones River site. The carnage took place 150 years ago, but two college students took to the area to go ghost hunting, hoping for a particular lunar alignment to bring out the spooks.

Click here to find out what they found.